MAKING THE CASE

10 min

Director: Jennifer Callahan

Producer: Jennifer Callahan

Editor: Hélène Attali

Cinematographer: Gordon Chou

Legal arguments were Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s daily currency, for which she is renowned, but what about her everyday life? In this short film she examines her handbags, revealing a corner of the mind that argued and won way-paving, historic cases. Jennifer Callahan is a filmmaker chronicling stories which go against the grain; her first feature, The Bungalows of Rockaway, illustrates 100 years of the comedies and dramas of New York City’s largest beach community and foregrounds urbanism, architectural history, and race/ethnicity.